Ouch - £20ks worth of bikes pinched from a garage in my town

[Linford]

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Mountain-bikes-worth-pound-20-000-stolen/story-16143511-detail/story.html

I'll bet these are the same scrotes who had my roadie away as well

Some really trick kit amongst this lot. I'd think it wouldn't be easy to fence it off on the open market unless it was being containerised and pushed abroad

Note some really unhelpful comments from the clowns on the responses

Rod and Isabel Booth had a number of their bikes stolen by thieves. Inset, the yellow Intense Tracer worth £6,000
Mr Booth had not ridden the yellow Intense Tracer since it was given to him in October due to injury.
Three of his other bikes were also taken – a black Yeti SB-66 worth £5,500, a carbon Lapierre Zesty 914 worth £5,250, and a red and black On-one 456 worth £2,250.
Mrs Booth's red, white and black Specialised SSR Myka worth £1,500 was also taken, along with her 12-year-old son Davey's red Santa Cruz, worth £2,500.
The bikes were too expensive to be included on the couple's contents insurance and they had not taken out a separate policy.

 

[Cubist]

Wow, sympathetic lot the readership of that particular snippet! Fancy owning nice things, how dare they!

 

[Linford]

The moderating team are a bunch of muppets as well. They have been very selective in the past in very heavy moderation of coments from one side of an argument whilst showing blatant bias in letting others to stand.

 

[e-rider]

someone clearly knew what they had.

M&S home contents insurance insures any number of bikes up to £4000 EACH - that would cover most of it! Perhaps they should have shopped about owning such a collection of expensive bikes.

 

[HovR]

Sad really that we need to go to all this extra effort to protect our bikes even when they're locked up in our own homes!

But that's a bit brave - Keeping £20 grands of uninsured bikes in Hesters Way. At least the bits of the area I know aren't too great!

 

[frayBentos59]

a 12 year old riding around (or was) on a £2,500 bike?????? Has the world gone completely mad????

 

[BSRU]

I do not understand why they failed to spend money on decent security and insurance for things that were worth alot of money and easy to steal.
Sympathies for having some scroates break in and knick them especially the one they spent lots of time building. I imagine it was not a spontaneous theft considering it was more than one stolen.

 

[MacB]

someone clearly knew what they had.

M&S home contents insurance insures any number of bikes up to £4000 EACH - that would cover most of it! Perhaps they should have shopped about owning such a collection of expensive bikes.

They did but not any more, I think it changed in Oct 2011 and is no longer available to new customers. I shopped around and the prices for insuring high end bikes are crazy. I was really specific as I didn't want accidental damage cover or cover away from the home, just theft cover. I was left with two choices:-

several hundred £s got me cover to keep them in the garage

£10 allowed me to have an individual item high value limit of £5k up to a total of £20k - but they would need to be in the house.

I went with the second option which means I wheel my expensive bike through the door at the back of the garage into the utility room.

 

[Cubist]

a 12 year old riding around (or was) on a £2,500 bike?????? Has the world gone completely mad????

So, a cycling mad family, and what appears to be a bit of disposable income and we feel the need to snipe at their choices?

 

[alans]

sounds like a professional theft with a buyer,possibly abroad, waiting in the wings.

 

[e-rider]

They did but not any more, I think it changed in Oct 2011 and is no longer available to new customers. I shopped around and the prices for insuring high end bikes are crazy. I was really specific as I didn't want accidental damage cover or cover away from the home, just theft cover. I was left with two choices:-

several hundred £s got me cover to keep them in the garage

£10 allowed me to have an individual item high value limit of £5k up to a total of £20k - but they would need to be in the house.

I went with the second option which means I wheel my expensive bike through the door at the back of the garage into the utility room.

It's good to know this for when the renewal comes up soon. I assume that my policy hasn't changed though?

 

[smokeysmoo]

"Police have now warned a gang could be operating in the area."

Wow! those Gloucester detectives are something else aren't they?

 

[cyberknight]

Much as i sympathise withtheir loss and i hope the scrotes are caught its strikes me that you would not leave a car on your drive unisured so why have bikes of such quality that are not covered ?
My bikes are on my house hold insurance as a special cycle insurance item to a value that covered the cost of replacement including theft when out assuming the bike is locked up, this means carrying a cafe stop lock on club runs and for my commuter i leave the locks at work which is in a secure cctv covered bike shed.

 

[MacB]

It's good to know this for when the renewal comes up soon. I assume that my policy hasn't changed though?

no existing policies should be fine

 

[frayBentos59]

So, a cycling mad family, and what appears to be a bit of disposable income and we feel the need to snipe at their choices?

i simply find it strange that a 12 year old child has been trusted with such an expensive piece of kit. nobody is sniping.